Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Issue: 138   Editor: MikaTheGoofball


The Beggars Impact Graham3
Everyone has seen it. You get a new message and click to see who’s messaging you and it turns out to be a bootlegger begger. Most people have asked for money at one time or another whether you remember it or not. Think back to when you just created your account, went to the black jack table and blew your whole five hundred dollars all in one go. Now remember continuously failing to beat up that darn blind man. What route did you take. Ya clicked on the users online button and started looked for people whose wealth status was notoriously rich. Don’t deny it I know it’s the truth.

Beggars impact the game more then most people think. Not only are they annoying messages you have to ignore, but they also play other roles. Going on to the hitlist at any given time and you’ll see reasons for the hit like “soz….couldnt find the federal bank…so I jus sent it this way” or “whoops I typed it in in the wrong spot my bad”. Besides when people hitlist others just because they can begging is the next highest reason, yet people still continue to beg.

Begging has varied results. Some people decide to give money. Big mistake! Supposedly an old scottish proverb, “show someone a finger and they’ll soon want a hand.” Once you’ve given money to them they’ll soon be wanting more. As discussed there’s the hitlisting approach, though clearly a bad use of money unless you like to see people die for pestering you. The most common approach of all is the filter approach. Quite the cheapest and most effective.

But what about when it’s a friend trying to bum a few bucks of you. Clearly you can’t hitlist them, you don’t want to filter them, but you also don’t want to give it to them. Well then theres the approach where you send people messages like this “go suck a dick….” The person gets the message and no one dies. Though possible few people seem to think about going and shooting the person themselves.

But no matter how the beggars are dealt with, weather they get there heads blown off or get told to “go suck a duck” they just don’t seem to realise that instead of asking for money what ya need to do is earn it yourself. It may be difficult, boring, and monotonous labour, but it’s a lot better then getting shot with thousands of bullets.uldnt find federal